Portsmouth Business School

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Dr Cheryl Rodgers BA, MSc, DPhil.

Current Roles: (Internal)

• Director of the MSc in Business and Management (MBM) Programme.

This is a popular and successful generalist Masters programme running with a strongly international cohort.

• Principal Lecturer in Corporate Strategy & Entrepreneurship.

In addition to the management role above, I teach across all levels from undergraduate to MBA and undertake research primarily in the areas of Sustainable Business and Responsible Leadership.

• Director of ‘URCS’ Research Group: Understanding Responsible Capitalism and Sustainability, University of Portsmouth Business School.

• Principal Investigator for a Knowledge Transfer Project (KTP) with the Institute of Ecological and Environmental Management (IEEM.) 

Current Roles: (External)

4. Member of the Editorial Committee of the 4th and 5th European Conferences on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE.)

Previous Roles: (External)

Qualifications:

• Creativity and Innovation in Leadership and Strategy.
• Enterprise, Sustainability and Ecopreneurship wrt Business Performance. 
• Strategic Management in the Public Sector.

 Previous Selected Consultancy Assignments:

• ICSLearn, Glasgow, UK:  
  • Strategic Facilitation of Sustainability Initiatives
• City Leaders:
  • Using Mentoring to Best Effect: Workshop for Senior Manager
• Portsmouth City Council: 
  • Procurement Strategy Report. 
• KONVER:  European Funding for Consultancy to SMEs.
  • Various - Business Planning.
• Is4profit:
  • Strategic development of a newly fledged dotcom company.
• BAYER AG/PLC, Leverkusen, Germany:
  • Review of recycling strategies.
• ICL PLC, London, UK:
  •  Reverse Logistics for Electronics Recycling: A Feasibility Study.
• KPMG, London, UK:
  • Client projects.  
• EMERG:(Electronic Manufacturers Equipment Recycling Group)
  • Steering Committee, member by invitation.                                                                                            

 Key skills:

• Strategic Management & Analysis

• Management Development/ Management Coach

• Board Level Advisor

• Sustainability and Business Performance

• Entrepreneurial Coaching

• Diagnostic problem/opportunity identification in business contexts

• Facilitation of Strategic Change

Recent Papers/Publications:

Rodgers C (2011) ‘Understanding Responsible Capitalism.’ Presentation by invitation to the Sustainable Business Network, Hampshire. 8 September 2011.

Rodgers C (2011) ‘Ivory Towers and Responsible Leadership: A Challenge for Education.’Conference Paper for the Corporate Responsibility Research Conference, 2011. University of Leeds, 12-14 September 2011. 

Rodgers C (2011) ‘Responsible Leadership in Practice.’ Conference Paper for the International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations. Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid, Spain. 15-17 June 2011. 

Rodgers C (2010) ‘Understanding “Sustain-Abilities”: An Exploration of the Skills and Traits of Ecopreneurs in Sustainable Entrepreneurship.’ Conference Paper for the Corporate Responsibility Research Conference 2010. Euromed Management School, Marseilles.  15-17 September 2010. 

Rodgers C (2010) ‘Sustainable Entrepreneurship in SMEs: A Case Study Analysis.’ The Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. Volume 17 Issue 3, Pages 125 – 132 Special Issue: Responsible Leadership. Also Published online in Wiley InterScience. (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/csr.223.

Awarded Best Conference Paper @ Corporate Responsibility Research Conference 2009: "Responsible Leadership” University of Vaasa, Finland, 7–9 September 2009.

Rodgers C (2008) ‘Shecopreneurship:” Female Ecopreneurs and how they do Business.’ Conference Paper for Sustainable Innovation 2008 - Part of the Towards Sustainable Product Design series of conferences. 13th International Conference, 27th - 28th October 2008, Malmö University, Sweden.

Rodgers C (2006) ‘We Can’t Run… But We Can Hide…’ Corporate Environmental Management as Palliative Rather Than Cure.  Conference Paper for The Corporate Responsibility Research Conference 2006. 4-5 September 2006, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Rodgers C (2000) ‘Making it Legit: New Ways of Generating Corporate Legitimacy in a Globalising World.’ Chapter in Bendell J. (2000) Terms for Endearment: Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development. Greenleaf Publications. ISBN:1874719284. 

Research Supervisions:

 My research interests are around ‘Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship,’ ‘Responsible Leadership’ and the ‘Creation of Green Value in a Corporate Context.’ I am currently supervising research students (PhD and DBA) in the following areas:

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development.

• Corporate Environmental Management and its Impacts in SMEs.

• Employee Behaviour and Corporate Environmental Performance.

Teaching Programmes: 

MBA

• Strategy & Sustainability
• Strategic LeadershipStrategic
• Change
• Master Class: Corporate Responsibility

 MSc , MBM

• Integrating Strategic Management and Change
• Professional development and Creativity
• Strategy & Sustainability

 NHS MSC in Leadership 

• Undergraduate:
• Strategic ManagementCreativity
• Management Futures
• Corporate Environmental Management
• Public and Social Enterprise 

 Previous Roles:

• Director, DBA, Portsmouth Business School.
• Head of Management Development, Directorate, University of Portsmouth.
• Principal Lecturer, Corporate Strategy, University of Portsmouth, including:
  • Board of Governors Strategy Group
  • Academic Council
  • University Research Committee
  • University Research Degrees Committee
  • University Environment Committee
  • Strategy Subject Group Leader.
  • External Advisor/Moderator - U/Grad Degree Franchise - Singapore/Hong Kong.
• Senior Lecturer, Corporate Strategy, University of Portsmouth.
• Management Consultant, GEConsult: The Consultancy Service of GEC.
• Graduate Fast Track: Maxwell Communications Corporation.
• Research Assistant: St. James Hospital, Leeds.